Can I pin them on?.........
Posted on 06/24/2008 6:56:05 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
WASHINGTON: The American military is set to promote a woman to the rank of four-star general for the first time.
Lieutenant General Ann Dunwoody, a logistics specialist with 33 years of military service, has been nominated to receive a fourth star and take charge of the US Army's Materiel Command.
“I am very honoured, but also very humbled, today with this announcement,” General Dunwoody said.
“I grew up in a family that didn't know what glass ceilings were. This nomination only reaffirms what I have known to be true about the military throughout my career ... that the doors continue to open for men and women in uniform.”
Defence Secretary Robert Gates hailed General Dunwoody's nomination as historic.
“Her 33 years of service, highlighted by extraordinary leadership and devotion to duty, make her exceptionally qualified for this senior position,” Mr Gates said.
The nomination must be confirmed by the US Senate.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
Kudos to Gen. Dunwoody and "her family.
Can I pin them on?.........
gotta love it don’t ya!
Go ahead, you are on your own.
might have some problems placing those stars on there, look at all her medals already..
Navy, Air Force, and Marines will follow soon.
Agreed...Jumpmaster and flight wings. In absence of significant evidence to the contrary, I'd say she's proven herself. There were several women ROTC classmates of mine that proved themselves as officer material, and they never asked for special treatment.
Unlike that witch Karpinski.
You could sure have a lot of fun with her name.... :-)
She's a four-star female, and she's being appointed general?
That should have been "first female four-star general", I would think.
Congratulations to Lieutenant General Ann Dunwoody, her family and friends. America’s finest! BTTT!
I like that her family didn’t even know what glass ceilings were, and that is Freedom.
And that's all you'd have fun with.
WoW!
I salute you, you beautiful and patriotic lady :-)
What a gal!
Time to appoint the first female African-American to four-star status.
Time to appoint the first female African-American to four-star status.
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Michelle Obama ??? (/s)
The lower set of wings are Rigger Wings.
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James Joyner | Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
Ann E. Dunwoody has been nominated for a third star and head of Army logistics. This would make her the Army’s top-ranking woman and the first three-star female in five years.
Dunwoody tapped for third star; would become Army’s top-ranked woman (Army Times)
Maj. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody has been nominated to become the senior logistics officer on the Army Staff. If confirmed for appointment to lieutenant general and assignment as deputy chief of staff, G-4, the Quartermaster Corps officer will be the top-ranking woman in the Army.
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Dunwoody is one of 17 women on the Army’s general officer roster — seven major generals, nine brigadier generals and one promotable colonel. If her nomination is confirmed by the Senate, Dunwoody will become the first female soldier to achieve three-star rank since Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, the former deputy chief of staff for intelligence who retired in 2000.
Seventeen female generals is a lot, given that women are not eligible for the combat arms. Indeed, three star rank is historically quite significant, as this excerpt from the Naval Historical Service makes clear:
General Washington was the first to wear three stars when he became the nation’s first Lieutenant General in 1798. After he died in 1799 there was not another Lieutenant General until 1855. The three stars appeared again, however, by 1832 as the insignia of the Major General who commanded the Army. In 1855 Congress honored Winfield Scott for his service as commanding general since 1841 and for his accomplishments in 1847 during the war with Mexico by making him a Brevet Lieutenant General. He held that rank until he retired in 1861. The next Lieutenant General was Ulysses S. Grant in 1864. Two years later he became the first General of the Army of the United States and chose four stars as his rank insignia. When Grant became President in 1869 he appointed William T. Sherman General of the Army and Phillip H. Sheridan Lieutenant General. Sherman changed the rank insignia in 1872 to a gold embroidered coat of arms of the United States between two silver stars. After Sherman retired in 1884 there was not supposed to be another General of the Army but in 1888 Congress relented and permitted the President to promote Sheridan who died two months later. Congress allowed another Lieutenant General promotion in 1895, one in 1900, five between 1903 and 1906, two in 1918 during World War I, one in 1929 and then no more until 1939. Our Army has been supplied with Lieutenant Generals since, as has the Marine Corps since 1942 and the Air Force since 1947.
There were no more full Generals after Sheridan died in 1884 until 1917 when Tasker H. Bliss, the Army Chief of Staff, and John J. Pershing, the commander of the U.S. forces in France during World War I, went from Major General to General (emergency) so they could have ranks equal to the allied commanders with whom they dealt. They changed the rank insignia back to four stars. In 1918, Peyton C. March also became a General.
In 1919 Congress honored Pershing for his wartime service by permitting the President to promote him to General of the Armies of the United States, which he held until he retired in 1924. He chose his own insignia, which was four stars. Nobody else has received that rank during his lifetime. In 1976 Congress authorized the President to posthumously appoint George Washington General of the Armies of the United States and specified that he would rank first among all officers, of the Army, past or present.
Congress did not allow the promotion of any more full Generals from 1918 to 1929 when the Major General chosen to be Chief of Staff also became a General so he could have a rank equal to the Chief of Naval Operations. Promotions for other Generals did not come until World War II, with the exception of a permanent promotion to General for Generals Bliss and March in June 1930. The Army still has several Generals, the Marines have had at least one General since 1945 and the Air Force, which started with three in 1947, also has several.
During World War II our Army got so big that even full Generals were not enough so in 1944 Congress created the new rank of General of the Army and specified five stars as its insignia. Congress did not revive the General of the Army rank held by Grant, Sherman and Sheridan. The World War II Generals of the Army were in a separate category from the Civil War Generals of the Army. In December 1944 the President appointed George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Henry H. Arnold Generals of the Army. In 1949 Arnold’s title became General of the Air Force. Omar N. Bradley got his fifth star in 1950.
So, there are now seven female generals in the Army alone that have the rank Washington held as commander of the War for Independence. (In 1798, he had already served two terms as president; the third star was entirely ceremonial.) http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2005/08/ann_dunwoody_tapped_for_third_star/
Hoooah! Glad to hear it!
Colonel, USAFR
“During World War II our Army got so big that even full Generals were not enough so in 1944 Congress created the new rank of General of the Army and specified five stars as its insignia.”
Wasn’t this in part done to the fact US allies in Europe had created 5-star field marshalls, but having a Field Marshall named Marshall wasn’t workable?
“Pentagon to appoint first four-star female general”
Is it Wesley Clark?
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